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Mortal vs Immortal - What's the difference?

mortal | immortal | Antonyms |

Immortal is a antonym of mortal.

Immortal is a related term of mortal.



As adjectives the difference between mortal and immortal

is that mortal is susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal while immortal is not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.

As nouns the difference between mortal and immortal

is that mortal is a human; someone susceptible to death while immortal is one who is not susceptible to death.

mortal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
    • I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
  • Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
    • Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
  • Fatally vulnerable; vital.
  • * Milton
    • Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
  • Of or relating to the time of death.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
  • Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
  • * Dryden
    • The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
  • * mortal enemy
  • Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
    • mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
  • * Milton
    • The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
  • Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
    • a sermon lasting two mortal hours
    (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
    • Let's go out and get mortal !

    Derived terms

    * mortality * mortal sin

    Synonyms

    * (causing death) fatal, lethal, baneful

    Antonyms

    * (susceptible to death) immortal, everlasting * (of or relating to death) natal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A human; someone susceptible to death.
  • :
  • *1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
  • *:Lord what fools these mortals be!
  • *
  • *:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.

    • Antonyms

    * immortal

    immortal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
  • Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
    • his immortal words
  • Connected with or relating to immortality.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have immortal longings in me.
  • (obsolete) Great; excessive; grievous.
    • (Hayward)

    Synonyms

    * undeadly * deathless * everlasting

    Antonyms

    * mortal

    Derived terms

    * immortality * immortally

    Related terms

    * (never dying) indestructible, unabolishable, unextinguishable * (being always remembered) unerasable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is not susceptible to death.
  • A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
  • A member of the Académie française.
  • (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon; a wizard.
  • * 1999 , "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.announce )
    • Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals . Immortals do not need experiance(SIC).

    External links

    * (Persian Immortals) *

    Related terms

    * mortal * mortality * mortician ----